Seriously, I'm a citizen and I was never asked my opinion about income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, etc. The government forces it on you - the best you can do is vote for a different person and HOPE that they will lower taxes.
You are given the opportunity to voice your opinion during every election. Perhaps not enough people agree with you to make it law, but you have ample opportunity to express it.
Anyone who doesn't support registration and banning of books is a violent extremist bent on destroying our society. "Educated" clearly means believing what the State tells you is the truth.
It's not the books, it's the pages. Those cop-killer pages.
Are you seriously equating books with objects that are designed entirely to kill? One purpose: to kill. Are you surprised when someone says that's stupid?
Who says that all killing is bad? I or my proxy has killed everything that I have ever eaten. I don't lose a wink of sleep over it.
The founding fathers also explicitly stated in other documents that one of the primary reasons for the second amendment was to keep the government in check.
No. At no point anyone involved with writing Constitution or Bill of Rights in particular, made any comments about reasons and purposes of the Second Amendment. There were plenty of statements about violent revolutions being necessary in the future, but nothing about government having an obligation to enable them by providing legal protecting of future armed dissenters.
He said that they explicitly stated so in "other documents", he didn't say in "the Constitution". Hence his use of the word "Other", the other documents that he refers to are called the Federlist Papers. These are the arguments that the men who wrote the Constitution made in favor of their adoption. The men who wrote the document knew far more about their intent than anyone else.
I don't think it's fair to call most of those men Military. They may have served stints, but other than Eisenhower, it wasn't a career for any of them.
In this situation, it was the right decision. This was a big and I do mean BIG system that was responsible for a lot of things. The kinks had been worked out from a functionality standpoint and the best thing to do was keep it moving. The company chose to stick with a known code base that many of the in-house resources were familiar with and could continue to support with minimal changes to the way things operated.
I can speak from first hand knowledge that many Fortune 500 companies are using technology that most people think of as obsolete. If you paid $50k for a software package that was written for VAX OpenVMS and the publisher went out of business 15 years ago, what would you do? You'd do the same thing these guys do. Work on getting a replacement, and keep that replacement in the wings until you can no longer run the existing (perfectly working) package.
In 2009, I worked on porting a fairly lengthy program from VAX to Alpha in OpenVMS Fortran. Why? Because it took 20 years to get the program just right and it works perfectly for the suited task. Why throw away a perfectly functional program just because the VAX is dying?
Today, companies are producing good and providing services that touch all of our lives using 30+ year old technology.
It's pretty simple: If you're good-looking and/or rich, you're just trying to get laid. If you're not, you're a sexual predator.
Don't even pretend it's not true.
If you're not hideous or creepy, you're just someone trying to get laid.
I'm an average looking guy but I managed to get more than my fair share of action. You just have to use your attributes to your advantage. Me, I'm tell, witty and smart. I leveraged that.
One time, I got blown because I could talk dirty to a girl in French. One time, I got laid because a girl thought it was sweet that I wrote her a program after one of our dates.
You don't have to have Brad Pitt's money or looks to score chicks. You just have to THINK before you pull your cock out.
I have met and boned several women that I met online
This is slashdot. You need to be more convincing
"I have masturbated to pictures I hacked from several women's facebook accounts before the restraining orders came fully into effect" would be more like it.
I have photographic and video proof. I'm just not showing you.
I'm pretty much in agreement. There's a difference between being a sexual predator and just someone trying to get laid.
I have met and boned several women that I met online. Some were dating/serious relationships that started out via an online encounter, some were straight booty calls that started out as an online meeting. If I'm 25 and she's 22 and we both know what's what, nobody involved is a sexual predator. Although without knowing the details of who we are, it might look that way to an observer.
LK
Re:I've been telling people this for 20 years.
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If you verbally tell the person that the medical people will ask, they'll just be carrying out your wishes. It won't be making a decision in that case.
My inability to trust people keeps me from putting it on my driver's license.
You, sir, have no idea of how that's applied. If you have a job, they say you can afford a lawyer. Even if all of your income is taken by rent/mortgage, utilities and food. If you have any income, you *can* afford a lawyer and are assumed to be refusing to pay for one.
You really must be indigent to get a free lawyer and those usually aren't that good.
LK
I've been telling people this for 20 years.
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The sheeple aren't going to listen. I'm in favor of organ donation, but I'll trust my relatives to make the decision when the time comes. I'm not advertising to anyone that my organs can be harvested to make them money.
There are only three possible explanations that I know of:
That is more indicative of your limitation than his.
somehow you thought murder was better than sucking dicks or picking up garbage.
For a heterosexual male, there are few things worse than the thought of sucking a dick for money. Between boot camp and dick sucking, there is really no choice.
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$364 per month in food stamps to the lady next door because she chose to reproduce with a loser = Unconstitutional
9001billioneleventy to the lowest bidder for weapons to kill people who are threats to us or our allies = Constitutional
FTFY
LK
Nothing the Founding Fathers said or wrote backed the notion that any citizen could voluntarily pay taxes or not.
They were all dead and cold a century or more before this nation imposed an income tax. They wouldn't have had an opinion on it.
LK
its citizens have have collectively decided
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Seriously, I'm a citizen and I was never asked my opinion about income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, etc. The government forces it on you - the best you can do is vote for a different person and HOPE that they will lower taxes.
You are given the opportunity to voice your opinion during every election. Perhaps not enough people agree with you to make it law, but you have ample opportunity to express it.
LK
Taxes are fully voluntary, we do not force anyone to stay in the US. Nor does any other major free nation.
You have a bizarre notion of "voluntary"
So does the IRS. They too consider income tax to be a "voluntary contribution", even though they'll put you in the hoosegow for not contributing.
LK
It's not the books, it's the pages. Those cop-killer pages.
Are you seriously equating books with objects that are designed entirely to kill? One purpose: to kill. Are you surprised when someone says that's stupid?
Who says that all killing is bad? I or my proxy has killed everything that I have ever eaten. I don't lose a wink of sleep over it.
LK
The founding fathers also explicitly stated in other documents that one of the primary reasons for the second amendment was to keep the government in check.
No. At no point anyone involved with writing Constitution or Bill of Rights in particular, made any comments about reasons and purposes of the Second Amendment. There were plenty of statements about violent revolutions being necessary in the future, but nothing about government having an obligation to enable them by providing legal protecting of future armed dissenters.
He said that they explicitly stated so in "other documents", he didn't say in "the Constitution". Hence his use of the word "Other", the other documents that he refers to are called the Federlist Papers. These are the arguments that the men who wrote the Constitution made in favor of their adoption. The men who wrote the document knew far more about their intent than anyone else.
LK
I don't think it's fair to call most of those men Military. They may have served stints, but other than Eisenhower, it wasn't a career for any of them.
LK
And yet this engineer feels most at home in a party that for years printed the delusion that Obama was born in Kenya.
Can't really blame them when Obama's literary agency made the same mistake.
LK
Slashdot: home of the false dilemma.
And the nigger joke. And the pasty obese white guys who mod them down as fast as they can to prove how cool and not-racist they are.
Even though niggers don't browse this site.
Of course they do. You're here.
LK
In your 40s, employers will regard you as potential management material, if you are not that, may of them will not regard you at all. Get your MBA.
LK
In this situation, it was the right decision. This was a big and I do mean BIG system that was responsible for a lot of things. The kinks had been worked out from a functionality standpoint and the best thing to do was keep it moving. The company chose to stick with a known code base that many of the in-house resources were familiar with and could continue to support with minimal changes to the way things operated.
LK
> In 2009, I worked on porting a fairly lengthy program from VAX to Alpha in OpenVMS Fortran.
Wasn't Alpha already replaced by Itanium at this point?
Yes, but the company in question still had active maintenance contract for the Alphas and the Itaniums were not ready for production use yet.
LK
I can speak from first hand knowledge that many Fortune 500 companies are using technology that most people think of as obsolete. If you paid $50k for a software package that was written for VAX OpenVMS and the publisher went out of business 15 years ago, what would you do? You'd do the same thing these guys do. Work on getting a replacement, and keep that replacement in the wings until you can no longer run the existing (perfectly working) package.
In 2009, I worked on porting a fairly lengthy program from VAX to Alpha in OpenVMS Fortran. Why? Because it took 20 years to get the program just right and it works perfectly for the suited task. Why throw away a perfectly functional program just because the VAX is dying?
Today, companies are producing good and providing services that touch all of our lives using 30+ year old technology.
LK
It's pretty simple: If you're good-looking and/or rich, you're just trying to get laid. If you're not, you're a sexual predator.
Don't even pretend it's not true.
If you're not hideous or creepy, you're just someone trying to get laid.
I'm an average looking guy but I managed to get more than my fair share of action. You just have to use your attributes to your advantage. Me, I'm tell, witty and smart. I leveraged that.
One time, I got blown because I could talk dirty to a girl in French. One time, I got laid because a girl thought it was sweet that I wrote her a program after one of our dates.
You don't have to have Brad Pitt's money or looks to score chicks. You just have to THINK before you pull your cock out.
LK
I have met and boned several women that I met online
This is slashdot. You need to be more convincing
"I have masturbated to pictures I hacked from several women's facebook accounts before the restraining orders came fully into effect" would be more like it.
I have photographic and video proof. I'm just not showing you.
LK
I'm pretty much in agreement. There's a difference between being a sexual predator and just someone trying to get laid.
I have met and boned several women that I met online. Some were dating/serious relationships that started out via an online encounter, some were straight booty calls that started out as an online meeting. If I'm 25 and she's 22 and we both know what's what, nobody involved is a sexual predator. Although without knowing the details of who we are, it might look that way to an observer.
LK
If you verbally tell the person that the medical people will ask, they'll just be carrying out your wishes. It won't be making a decision in that case.
My inability to trust people keeps me from putting it on my driver's license.
LK
is that celebrities do not like hearing that the same rules that apply to everyone else applies to them.
LK
You, sir, have no idea of how that's applied. If you have a job, they say you can afford a lawyer. Even if all of your income is taken by rent/mortgage, utilities and food. If you have any income, you *can* afford a lawyer and are assumed to be refusing to pay for one.
You really must be indigent to get a free lawyer and those usually aren't that good.
LK
The sheeple aren't going to listen. I'm in favor of organ donation, but I'll trust my relatives to make the decision when the time comes. I'm not advertising to anyone that my organs can be harvested to make them money.
LK
LIES
No.
If Jeffrey Dahmer had provided homes for more stray kittens than anyone else, yes he'd deserve that praise too.
LK
If anything, the deliberate choice to embrace witch doctors is worse because it is a barrier to logical and scientific discussion.
No, YOU are the barrier. When you attack people, instead of using logic and reason, they will not listen to anything else you have to say.
LK
There are only three possible explanations that I know of:
That is more indicative of your limitation than his.
somehow you thought murder was better than sucking dicks or picking up garbage.
For a heterosexual male, there are few things worse than the thought of sucking a dick for money. Between boot camp and dick sucking, there is really no choice.
LK